Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
The total value of the industrial output of the Russian Ukraine, in 1908, was approximately
870 million rubles, or 19% of the total Russian large-scale production. The production
of the Austrian Ukraine amounts to not even one-tenth of this amount. The main centers
of large-scale production are Katerinoslav (166.2 million rubles), Kiev (143.5), Kherson
(127.5), and Kharkiv (98.7). Ukrainian large-scale industry concerns itself chiefly
with the manufacturing of the mineral products of the land and the preparation of
foods. The textile industry is artificially suppressed in the interests of the Central
Russian industrial districts.
The cotton industry is confined to only a few small factories in the Don region (Rostiv, Nakhichevan)
and Katerinoslav (Pavlokichkas). The woolen industry is less limited (Chernihiv country, especially Klinzi, then [289]Kharkiv, Kiev, the Don region, Volhynia). The linen and hemp industry is well developed only in the Chernihiv country (Pochep, Mhlin, Starodub, Novosibkiv)
and in Kherson (Odessa) jute factories are also found. The clothing industry is worthy
of mention only in Kherson and the larger cities of Eastern Galicia.
Of the many branches of the food industry, the first to be mentioned is the manufacture of sugar. The sugar refineries of the Ukraine, more than 200 in number (most of them in the
territories of Kiev, Kharkiv, Podolia, Kherson), produce annually (1904) over 6.6
million metric hundredweights of raw sugar and 3.9 metric hundredweights of refined
sugar. These figures represent 76% and 68% respectively of the total Russian output.
It is remarkable that in the Austrian Ukraine, where the sugar industry has the finest
possibilities of expanding, it is entirely undeveloped (only two factories). The milling industry, which, in general, is carried on chiefly in small water and wind-mills, possesses
also some large mills operated by steam (Kharkiv, Kiev, Poltava, Kreminchuk, Odessa,
Mikolaiv, Melitopol, Lviv, Brody, Ternopil, Stanislaviv, Kolomia, etc.). Another important
industry is alcohol-distillation, which is well advanced in all parts of the Ukraine, but particularly in Russian
and Galician Podolia (Galicia has 800 stills), Kharkiv and Kiev. The beer-brewing industry is but slightly developed, and the only districts in which it yields a product of
some quality are Galicia and the Bukowina. Mead brewing, also a common industry, is carried on on a large scale only in the Kharkiv country
and in Eastern Galicia. Oil-pressing is important in the territories of Kherson (Odessa), Kiev, Chernihiv (Pochep, Novosibkiv),
in Kharkiv and in Kreminchuk. The important tobacco industry is carried on to a considerable degree in 100 factories in the Russian Ukraine (Kiev,
Kharkiv, Odessa, Zitomir, Poltava, Kreminchuk, Romen, Katerinoslav, [290]Mikolaiv, etc.) as well as in three government factories in Galicia (Vinniki, Monastiriska
and Zabolotiv).
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